DoW Rare Cancers Idea Development Award
Apply on Grants.gov →Application closes November 18, 2026
- Posted
- June 17, 2026
- Closes
- November 18, 2026
- Program funding
- $7,350,000
- Expected awards
- 15
- Cost sharing
- No
- Instrument
- Grant
- Assistance listing
- 12.420
- Archives
- December 18, 2026
Program funding history
Awards made under Assistance Listing 12.420 across FY2025–FY2027, from public federal spending records.
- FY2025 obligated
- $1.3B
- FY2026 obligated
- $598.5M
- FY2027 (to date) obligated
- $0
- Awards in window
- 4,414
Top recipients: The Univeristy of Texas M.d. Anderson Cancer Center, Regents of the University of California, San Francisco, the, University of California, Los Angeles, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.
Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed October 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →
Synopsis
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Rare Cancers Research Program (RCRP) Idea Development Award (IDA) promotes ideas that are ready for further development and have the potential to yield high-impact findings and new avenues of investigation.
Distinctive Features:
- The RCRP encourages applicants to include an exploratory aim or sub-aim to support any necessary discovery-driven research.
- Preliminary data with disease-specific rationale are required. However, these data do not necessarily need to originate from studies of the proposed rare cancer type(s)/subtype(s) under study.
- Research should have high potential impact on rare cancers and the patient community.
Who can apply
- Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
How to apply
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